Green living thrives in communes, eco-villages

I've been promoting this piece of property for sale known as Woods Creek Preserve as a great location for a housing cooperative (co-op), or cohousing, location in Snohomish County. Since there is a spring and creek frontage on the property it provides its own water for any community that decides to locate here. Rather than parceling up this property into individual 5 acre lots the current owners have proceeded with their green community ideas and preliminary plat, and now have building plans in hand for what would be a green community of 8 homes with lots of preserved green space (while providing enough private space at the same time).

I am passing along a blog post from the Green House blog by Wendy Koch on USA Today.com.


Photo: Alex Gibbs, 9, left, and his brother Austin Gibbs, 8, ride a pony cart on the grounds of Lake Village Homestead in Kalamazoo, Mich., in July 2007. By Eileen Blass, USAT

Shared eco-friendly living is becoming increasingly popular in places that range from communes to co-housing, eco-villages or intentional communities.

These are not the hippy, free-love communes of the 1960s, but living arrangements that focus on organic farming, green building, communal spaces and other aspects of sustainability.

"The future of housing, in general, is sustainable communities,"

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Please contact me at 206.686.HOME or wendyhj@greenspacesrealestate.com for more information or to arrange a property tour while the weather is still nice!

Building Permits Approved

During a recent phone call with the property owner he informed me that the county has approved the building plans! Yay!

It's spring in the country and everything smells so fine.

We hope to be doing a property tour soon, so stay tuned and/or let me know if you are interested in going.

We also intend to do a video tour of the property for those further away.

It's World Water Week

Remember the "Story of Stuff"? It opened a lot of people's eyes. Now Annie Leanord has produced the "Story of Bottled Water".

If you agree that all of those plastic bottles are wasteful, my personal recommendation is Klean Kanteens. We own several and take water with us from home. You will too after you watch this video.



If you'd like to know more about the video's creator, check out this blog post at Green House on USA Today.